Hi, I am indebted to Andrew Wagner for pointing me in the direction of the book http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ Which I now have time to study. Everything was going fine until I got to the section in Getting Started where it gives A Simple Program. Now as someone who is used to the Windows environment CLI is not my forte. Following instructions which appear to be incomplete I created a file of the program WC.hs but where should it go? I tried various places until I reread the :? For the :cd command. Ah I said that's what I need to do put it in a folder and change the Dir. Now I can find the file with the :edit command. Did the same with the file quux.txt same place. Now run the command $ runghc WC < quux.txt <interactive>:1:0: parse error on input '$' What have I done wrong or not done? It does say "at a shell or command prompt" what's that?? I reverted to the installation instructions provided by GHC for Windows. 2.2 Installing on Windows 2.2.1 Installing GHC on Windows Checked all that had been done correctly. Enter the program line 1> bash$ cat main.hs <interactive>:1:0: parse error on input '$' Now bash looks like a modified prompt?? So what is happening? Regards to all and TIA for reply. Alan Cameron